Stephen Lindsey

Stephen Decatur Lindsey ( born March 3 1828 in Norridgewock, Maine, † April 26, 1884 ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1883 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Lindsey attended the public schools of his home and then the Broomfield Academy. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1853 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Norridewock. Between 1857 and 1860 he was also Clerk of the District Court in Somerset County.

Politically, Lindsey member of the Republican Party. In 1856 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Maine. Between 1868 and 1870 he was a member of the State Senate, which he was president in 1869. In 1860 and 1868 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions, to which Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant were later nominated as a presidential candidate. 1874 Lindsey was a member of the Governing Council of Maine.

In 1876 he was in the third electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1877, the successor of Edwin Flye. After two re- election he was able to complete in 1883 three contiguous legislatures in Congress until March 3. During this time the Reconstruction ended in the states of the former Confederacy. 1882 Lindsey waived on a bid again. As a result, he was until his death in 1884, again working as a lawyer.